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Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> Mon, 13 July 2009 20:32 UTC

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To: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required
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On 13 jul 2009, at 21:56, Douglas Otis wrote:

> Visual Basic would represent a more likely tool, since it is already  
> supported by the Word application.

Only in some versions. In the latest MacOS version it's not supported.

> This makes one wonder whether there could be a better way.

I think a better way would be to create a new intermediate format that  
can both be an input to generate XML2RFC code _to_ as XML2RFC code  
_from_, as well as HTML and the current RFC archival format.

This solves the problem that converting anything else into XML2RFC a  
reverse lossy process: XML2RFC needs more than what other formats can  
supply so automatic conversion (from, for instance, Word) is impossible.

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